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10 thoughts on “Stick Chair Class: Day 2”

  1. Fantastic stuff! Looks like y’all are having fun and making great progress!

  2. It makes me irrationally happy to see people using sanding machines. If I have any chance of making a chair a sanding machine is going to help a lot. I still have no idea how I’m going to saddle a seat, though, in spite of the fact that I bought a scorp.

  4. Another really cool thing with watching these videos is that I am currently re-reading The Stick Chair Book (I plan to pretty much know it by heart, come October), so to see people put into practice a number of the methods and processes described in the book, in the same settings and with many of the same tools and machines that one knows from the illustrations (which is also slightly discombobulating, I guess because of some kind of same-but-different effect) really brings the book’s lessons home and to life!

    Great stuff!

    Cheers,

    Mattias

  6. Beautiful work.

    How do you keep the area around the band saw so clean? I did not see any dust collection in the bench room. Does the dust settle around the shop after being airborn. Your ship always looks so clean.

  7. Regarding the use of pocket screws in the arm bow…

    Do the screws typically remain in the finished chair? Effectively hidden once the shoe gets glued on?

    I pulled the screws out after drying and before gluing the shoe on but that end grain joint wouldn’t have taken much jostling to break apart with the screws gone. I did okay, but fear it was luck more than any skill on my part!!!

    1. I remove the screws as long as they don’t interfere with the stick positions. The glue joint is long grain to long grain so it is strong. But the unsupported arm has short grain that the shoe shores up.

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